Thanks, Hubert, and you are one of my heros! A dairy homeopathic vet! Would that my homeopathic training had come years earlier when I was still deep in dairy country practice in Wisconsin!
Thoroughly enjoyed this full article. While reading I had an epiphany how pleasingly ingenious and simple homeopathic medicine is compared to what you referred to as “slash & burn”. Of course on the surface that is plainly obvious to anyone willing to conduct research, but sometimes a deep gratitude arises when the notion is truly pondered on.
As you treat more of your loved ones (and yourself), your appreciation will grow and grow! Simple but deep acting, safe and effective, and the animals are its best proof: they don’t know a placebo effect! They either get better or don’t, and if they don’t, your remedy missed the mark. Back to the drawing board.
Dr Falconer educated me about shots over 20 years ago in relation to my dogs and I’m so grateful. But considering this article, I’m going to be bold and say that there’s no necessity to give a shot even “once and done”. Just being out and about in nature, around people and other dogs, exposes your dog to everything he needs to build his immunities to his surrounds. What’s in those vials is vile matter. And that’s not going to into my dogs or me.
While I applaud your stance, mostly, rabies immunity will not come from being in the great outdoors. Whether or not you vaccinate against it needs to be an informed decision, based on where and how you live with your dog.
And there’s a place for controlled natural exposure (+ a homeopathic nosode) for parvo, but doing nothing but the great outdoors will land some 4-6 mo old pups in a challenging situation, sometimes a fatal one.
Lovely to read this on a Sunday morning. So enjoyable to see the photos too. Thank you for the treatise on heartworms. I already just gave mine ivermectin in the summer and since I'm in a yellow area, that's the end of that.
I used the Heartgard one for small dogs..1 tablet a month. But I'm not going to use it any longer since my area has an extremely low incidence and she hardly ever goes outside anyway.
When I was working with Dr. Russell Swift as a homeopath, we saw 4 heartworm positive dogs.
We used a herbal parasite program (it was when Hulda Clarke's protocol was everywhere) and treated with what we believed was the constitutional remedy. Three of the dogs became negative- the fourth one was a stray I took in and he never showed signs of heartworm disease (there's a huge difference between being positive and having heartworm disease).He was adopted out with strict instructions never to vaccinate. I'm sure he outlived the heartworm because one of the facts conventional vets don't tell you is that heartworms live for only about 5 years and unless your dog is getting repeatedly infected, s/he will outlast the worms which DO NOT breed in the dog. One of the subsequently negative dogs was vaccinated at the regular vet and then went back to being positive. (Interestingly, all three positive to negative dogs seemed to need and were given Arsenicum.)
I first learned of a “stock HW homeopathic protocol” using Arsenicum album, I’m sure proposed because of its similarity to the drug. It never worked. When I learned how to constitutionally treat dogs, I saw each was unique, and they each got a series of remedies, based entirely on their symptoms and responses to each prior remedy.
Anyone adept at classical homeopathic prescribing can cure HW this way. Just beware the “one size fits all” idea. We treat the dog, not the disease. And that’s how homeopathy predictably heals the sick, regardless of their disease label.
The anti-parasite protocol I refer to involved, in stages, parsley tea, ground clove and black walnut tincture. We figured it might lessen the parasite burden as the remedy worked. And we didn't reflexively give the Arsenicum; that's just how the dogs cases happened to repertorize.
The past 5 years have completely changed my way of thinking. You could say I’m utterly AWAKE now to all the lies we’ve been told about health care / sick care. For ourselves & for our beloved animals. I’m angry & relieved all at the same time. I know better & I will do better for myself & those around me. Including my cats & future pups. We’ve lost our dogs we’ve had in our lifetime WAY too soon. I know exactly why now. 😢 Thank you for shedding light on a subject that most people are afraid to acknowledge. Knowledge is power. I’m thankful for you ♥️God bless you & your talents & knowledge you pass on to us.
Bravo for your shift, @Leslie! And, my apologies for how long it took to okay your comment. There'd been some bad actors smashing into my comments and I had to put something in place to screen everyone before their comments would show.
You won't have to leap that hurdle again, and we welcome your input whenever you're so moved.
Your story reminds me of a client's many years ago, whose pack of small dogs was both costing her a fortune in vet bills and dying way too soon. She saw the problem clearly: "Over prevention" and when she quit going to the vets so frequently and started to "call the shots" herself, sanity (and huge savings) were restored. Carry on, your future looks bright from where I stand.
I had to have my 3 1/2 year-old male husky neutered several months ago… let’s just say hormones are a dangerous thing… 😬🤨😱😱😱 We were at the end of our rope. Anyway, the only way I could get him seen and fixed was to have him get his shots… With much prayer we bit the bullet… 🤦🏽♀️😢🙏🏽
He had a rabies shot and a “6 in one.” Whatever that meant…😵😵😵 Anyway, my “healthy as a horse” husky has now been gaining weight and has developed a cough. One of my sons and I are getting over some kind of crud that both of us had a bad cough. Now the dog is coughing also… He seems a little better this week, only coughing a little in the morning and if he gets too wound up.
Now I’m scared he either has some kind of heart thing going on or heartworm. 😱😱😱 Several years ago my 12 year old Chihuahua got her rabies shot and died three months later with heart failure. 😞😭😭😭 She never had any heart problems before the shot… I’m wondering if that killed her…
At this point, I’m scared to go to the vet. 🤦🏽♀️🔥
I plan to watch him for a little while longer to see if he continues to improve.
Would any of y’all encourage the use of this product…?
Dear GBA, when I first got my beagle Millie in June 2021 at 7 weeks old, I was going to a holistic vet and she suggested I give her HeartGuard monthly. At the time, I didn't know the dangers of HeartGuard. So did more research and found out that HeartGuard doesn't prevent heartworm at all! I stopped giving Millie HeartGuard after 2 months and started her on HWF Clean Heart. I was reading the testimonials of pet parents finding out their dogs tested positive using HeartGuard and they switched to HWF Clean Heart. Once they got their blood tests done, all were negative using HWF Clean Heart product. Since I switched to HWF Clean Heart for Millie, she has been negative for the past 3 years. I got her niece Annie in Sept 2023 at 7 weeks old and started her on HWF Clean Heart as well. He first test showed negative, so this product really works. I live in central NH, so I give it to them from mid-March till end of October.
Also, both Millie & Annie got their core shots required by the breeder. Millie got the second distemper and parvo shot, then first rabies shot in her first year. She had a reaction to the rabies shot as her hind legs got weak. Thankfully she recovered as I feed her & Annie raw food diet. I no longer get her vaccinated. She also got Ovary Sparing Spay at 14 months old, as I felt it was important to keep her ovaries. As for Annie, no vaccines since bringing her home from the breeder. She can't get the OSS done because she doesn't have a vaccine chart. Today, they're both in very good health. No more vaccines and it's important you feed them a raw food diet. I'm sorry you went through so much with your dogs. I've never heard of 6 in 1 shot. Such a darn shame.
Stop using products and wasting time and money, do a consult w a homeopathic vet that has experience. Isnt this what you are supposed to be learning here??? 🤦🏼♂️
Geography has never been an issue to work with one in the over 30+ years I’ve been using homeopathy! Ya know, when we use to only have dial-up telephones! They are all over the world, for pple n animals. Never has there been a barrier and certainly not now, so get on it! Tons of ways to search for them, tons! Interview a few of them, or their gatekeeper, to decide who best suits you and do it sooner than not, not when you suddenly have a crisis. MEOW is the time to be looking into it all!
Finding a vet for just a check up these days is insane. 2 of my pride are 17, doing really well, indoor only, raw diet, treated homeopathically, probably jabbed w the poisons when they got spayed 17 yrs ago at a clinic even though I requested no jabs! I thought I’d like to get them in for a physical just to see etc, but calling around, they all want rabies proof or will force rabies at the appt. (As if that protects anyone in the given moment 🤬) And on top of that, most are requiring you prepay a deposit for that appt and reg. Appts are $80-90 for one animal.
As if this industry racket wasn’t bad enough………. Now if you want to walk out of your appt. bc theyre being nazis tying to force something on you/your pet and don’t give a hoot abt your wishes, you wasted $$$ and it’s just common sense of you don’t vax a 17 yrs old strictly indoor animal…….. imo, I don’t vax any being,……..it’s not natural, unnecessary and all abt $$$$ 🤬
Haven’t been to conventional vet, was looking for one, thinking my girls are 17 now and thought a physical & bloodwork might be in order as they have a few signs I’m concerned abt, then I’d only use homeopathy.
Have had a sanctuary last 20 yrs, only saw vets for spaying n neutering and don’t even do that anymore. I was using animal communicators when there was only a handful ans stRted talking abt ethoxyquin in pet foods etc etc 30 yrs ago. I did all my own homeopathic treatments since-mid 1990s but now had stroke 3 yrsago n chronic homeo treatment too difficult and will employ help from a homeopathic vet.
Last May, I told my vet no more vaccines for our then two-year-old dog. I have an appointment this Friday for a HW check, but have already decided to stop the HW medication. She’ll get the usual annual check and we can find out her weight (she looks fabulous, by the way), and that will be good enough for us.
What are your thoughts on a monthly dose of horse paste, either fenben or IVM for her? Worth it or just a panacea for my peace of mind (so I feel like I’m doing SOMETHING lol!)?
Zula had her HW check yesterday and is negative. I’ll check out your link above, for sure. I left without the heartworm prescription meds and we’ve stopped giving her Nexgard as well (there’s a reason these are Rx only, because they’re poison, and vets report AEs). My vet did push the Lyme disease vaccine (initial series and then monthly - no thanks!). Can you direct me to some literature on better choices for flea and tick preventatives as well? We do check her for ticks and haven’t seen any fleas - yet…
I agree 100% with what you've written - and the manner in which you wrote it: Common sense truth!
Thanks, Hubert, and you are one of my heros! A dairy homeopathic vet! Would that my homeopathic training had come years earlier when I was still deep in dairy country practice in Wisconsin!
Thoroughly enjoyed this full article. While reading I had an epiphany how pleasingly ingenious and simple homeopathic medicine is compared to what you referred to as “slash & burn”. Of course on the surface that is plainly obvious to anyone willing to conduct research, but sometimes a deep gratitude arises when the notion is truly pondered on.
As you treat more of your loved ones (and yourself), your appreciation will grow and grow! Simple but deep acting, safe and effective, and the animals are its best proof: they don’t know a placebo effect! They either get better or don’t, and if they don’t, your remedy missed the mark. Back to the drawing board.
Dr Falconer educated me about shots over 20 years ago in relation to my dogs and I’m so grateful. But considering this article, I’m going to be bold and say that there’s no necessity to give a shot even “once and done”. Just being out and about in nature, around people and other dogs, exposes your dog to everything he needs to build his immunities to his surrounds. What’s in those vials is vile matter. And that’s not going to into my dogs or me.
While I applaud your stance, mostly, rabies immunity will not come from being in the great outdoors. Whether or not you vaccinate against it needs to be an informed decision, based on where and how you live with your dog.
And there’s a place for controlled natural exposure (+ a homeopathic nosode) for parvo, but doing nothing but the great outdoors will land some 4-6 mo old pups in a challenging situation, sometimes a fatal one.
I hear you but my evidence and 6 dogs over the years proves my point.
You’ve obviously been doing some great work. Carry on.
I owe this knowledge to you. Thank you, Dr Falconer! 🙏🏻🌺
Lovely to read this on a Sunday morning. So enjoyable to see the photos too. Thank you for the treatise on heartworms. I already just gave mine ivermectin in the summer and since I'm in a yellow area, that's the end of that.
Dosage?
I used the Heartgard one for small dogs..1 tablet a month. But I'm not going to use it any longer since my area has an extremely low incidence and she hardly ever goes outside anyway.
When I was working with Dr. Russell Swift as a homeopath, we saw 4 heartworm positive dogs.
We used a herbal parasite program (it was when Hulda Clarke's protocol was everywhere) and treated with what we believed was the constitutional remedy. Three of the dogs became negative- the fourth one was a stray I took in and he never showed signs of heartworm disease (there's a huge difference between being positive and having heartworm disease).He was adopted out with strict instructions never to vaccinate. I'm sure he outlived the heartworm because one of the facts conventional vets don't tell you is that heartworms live for only about 5 years and unless your dog is getting repeatedly infected, s/he will outlast the worms which DO NOT breed in the dog. One of the subsequently negative dogs was vaccinated at the regular vet and then went back to being positive. (Interestingly, all three positive to negative dogs seemed to need and were given Arsenicum.)
I first learned of a “stock HW homeopathic protocol” using Arsenicum album, I’m sure proposed because of its similarity to the drug. It never worked. When I learned how to constitutionally treat dogs, I saw each was unique, and they each got a series of remedies, based entirely on their symptoms and responses to each prior remedy.
Anyone adept at classical homeopathic prescribing can cure HW this way. Just beware the “one size fits all” idea. We treat the dog, not the disease. And that’s how homeopathy predictably heals the sick, regardless of their disease label.
The anti-parasite protocol I refer to involved, in stages, parsley tea, ground clove and black walnut tincture. We figured it might lessen the parasite burden as the remedy worked. And we didn't reflexively give the Arsenicum; that's just how the dogs cases happened to repertorize.
The past 5 years have completely changed my way of thinking. You could say I’m utterly AWAKE now to all the lies we’ve been told about health care / sick care. For ourselves & for our beloved animals. I’m angry & relieved all at the same time. I know better & I will do better for myself & those around me. Including my cats & future pups. We’ve lost our dogs we’ve had in our lifetime WAY too soon. I know exactly why now. 😢 Thank you for shedding light on a subject that most people are afraid to acknowledge. Knowledge is power. I’m thankful for you ♥️God bless you & your talents & knowledge you pass on to us.
Bravo for your shift, @Leslie! And, my apologies for how long it took to okay your comment. There'd been some bad actors smashing into my comments and I had to put something in place to screen everyone before their comments would show.
You won't have to leap that hurdle again, and we welcome your input whenever you're so moved.
Your story reminds me of a client's many years ago, whose pack of small dogs was both costing her a fortune in vet bills and dying way too soon. She saw the problem clearly: "Over prevention" and when she quit going to the vets so frequently and started to "call the shots" herself, sanity (and huge savings) were restored. Carry on, your future looks bright from where I stand.
Thanks for more practical education and advice on how best to treat the innocents in our care--much appreciated.
I had to have my 3 1/2 year-old male husky neutered several months ago… let’s just say hormones are a dangerous thing… 😬🤨😱😱😱 We were at the end of our rope. Anyway, the only way I could get him seen and fixed was to have him get his shots… With much prayer we bit the bullet… 🤦🏽♀️😢🙏🏽
He had a rabies shot and a “6 in one.” Whatever that meant…😵😵😵 Anyway, my “healthy as a horse” husky has now been gaining weight and has developed a cough. One of my sons and I are getting over some kind of crud that both of us had a bad cough. Now the dog is coughing also… He seems a little better this week, only coughing a little in the morning and if he gets too wound up.
Now I’m scared he either has some kind of heart thing going on or heartworm. 😱😱😱 Several years ago my 12 year old Chihuahua got her rabies shot and died three months later with heart failure. 😞😭😭😭 She never had any heart problems before the shot… I’m wondering if that killed her…
At this point, I’m scared to go to the vet. 🤦🏽♀️🔥
I plan to watch him for a little while longer to see if he continues to improve.
Would any of y’all encourage the use of this product…?
https://thenaturaldogstore.com/products/amber-naturalz-hwf?discount=BYE-SKEETERS&utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Promo%3A%20HWF%20Clean%20Heart%20-%2020%25%20Off%20%2801JVD3ZCCEN01H91RRQ2HJK10N%29&utm_term=Newsletter&tw_profile_id=01G30MMKR7PPCPE3P994H4K9XJ
Please advise… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Dear GBA, when I first got my beagle Millie in June 2021 at 7 weeks old, I was going to a holistic vet and she suggested I give her HeartGuard monthly. At the time, I didn't know the dangers of HeartGuard. So did more research and found out that HeartGuard doesn't prevent heartworm at all! I stopped giving Millie HeartGuard after 2 months and started her on HWF Clean Heart. I was reading the testimonials of pet parents finding out their dogs tested positive using HeartGuard and they switched to HWF Clean Heart. Once they got their blood tests done, all were negative using HWF Clean Heart product. Since I switched to HWF Clean Heart for Millie, she has been negative for the past 3 years. I got her niece Annie in Sept 2023 at 7 weeks old and started her on HWF Clean Heart as well. He first test showed negative, so this product really works. I live in central NH, so I give it to them from mid-March till end of October.
Also, both Millie & Annie got their core shots required by the breeder. Millie got the second distemper and parvo shot, then first rabies shot in her first year. She had a reaction to the rabies shot as her hind legs got weak. Thankfully she recovered as I feed her & Annie raw food diet. I no longer get her vaccinated. She also got Ovary Sparing Spay at 14 months old, as I felt it was important to keep her ovaries. As for Annie, no vaccines since bringing her home from the breeder. She can't get the OSS done because she doesn't have a vaccine chart. Today, they're both in very good health. No more vaccines and it's important you feed them a raw food diet. I'm sorry you went through so much with your dogs. I've never heard of 6 in 1 shot. Such a darn shame.
Thank you for your encouraging words… I just ordered HWF clean heart… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Stop using products and wasting time and money, do a consult w a homeopathic vet that has experience. Isnt this what you are supposed to be learning here??? 🤦🏼♂️
It would be wonderful to consult with a homeopathic vet if there was one within two hours of me… 😵 We need more homeopathic vets!
Distance matters not. Here’s how to search: https://youtu.be/XyEklB8W6M0
Geography has never been an issue to work with one in the over 30+ years I’ve been using homeopathy! Ya know, when we use to only have dial-up telephones! They are all over the world, for pple n animals. Never has there been a barrier and certainly not now, so get on it! Tons of ways to search for them, tons! Interview a few of them, or their gatekeeper, to decide who best suits you and do it sooner than not, not when you suddenly have a crisis. MEOW is the time to be looking into it all!
Finding a vet for just a check up these days is insane. 2 of my pride are 17, doing really well, indoor only, raw diet, treated homeopathically, probably jabbed w the poisons when they got spayed 17 yrs ago at a clinic even though I requested no jabs! I thought I’d like to get them in for a physical just to see etc, but calling around, they all want rabies proof or will force rabies at the appt. (As if that protects anyone in the given moment 🤬) And on top of that, most are requiring you prepay a deposit for that appt and reg. Appts are $80-90 for one animal.
As if this industry racket wasn’t bad enough………. Now if you want to walk out of your appt. bc theyre being nazis tying to force something on you/your pet and don’t give a hoot abt your wishes, you wasted $$$ and it’s just common sense of you don’t vax a 17 yrs old strictly indoor animal…….. imo, I don’t vax any being,……..it’s not natural, unnecessary and all abt $$$$ 🤬
Sounds like you might live in California?
No, western NY. Near lake Ontario.
You need to FIRE this vet, and may want to work long distance with a homeopathic vet.
Haven’t been to conventional vet, was looking for one, thinking my girls are 17 now and thought a physical & bloodwork might be in order as they have a few signs I’m concerned abt, then I’d only use homeopathy.
Have had a sanctuary last 20 yrs, only saw vets for spaying n neutering and don’t even do that anymore. I was using animal communicators when there was only a handful ans stRted talking abt ethoxyquin in pet foods etc etc 30 yrs ago. I did all my own homeopathic treatments since-mid 1990s but now had stroke 3 yrsago n chronic homeo treatment too difficult and will employ help from a homeopathic vet.
Last May, I told my vet no more vaccines for our then two-year-old dog. I have an appointment this Friday for a HW check, but have already decided to stop the HW medication. She’ll get the usual annual check and we can find out her weight (she looks fabulous, by the way), and that will be good enough for us.
What are your thoughts on a monthly dose of horse paste, either fenben or IVM for her? Worth it or just a panacea for my peace of mind (so I feel like I’m doing SOMETHING lol!)?
I'd not suggest either drug. Both have been known to screw up the gut microbiome and IVM has seizures, paralysis, and repeated vomiting in dogs.
If you want to DO, do what hundreds have done over the decades with my drug free HW prevention protocol: http://vitalanimal.com/drugfreeheartworm/
Animals on this actually get healthier that longer they apply this. Sure can't say that about IVM or FenBen or any other pesticides, right?
Sorry it took so long to respond.
Zula had her HW check yesterday and is negative. I’ll check out your link above, for sure. I left without the heartworm prescription meds and we’ve stopped giving her Nexgard as well (there’s a reason these are Rx only, because they’re poison, and vets report AEs). My vet did push the Lyme disease vaccine (initial series and then monthly - no thanks!). Can you direct me to some literature on better choices for flea and tick preventatives as well? We do check her for ticks and haven’t seen any fleas - yet…
Here’s my non-toxic flea control: http://vitalanimal.com/non-toxic-flea-control/
Thank you 🙏